John Coltrane Quartet with Eric Dolphy - "Impressions"

[@eyeswideopen935]

🙏When giants walked on the Earth🙏

[@MBEABOGADOS]

giant steps

[@dragonfly4484]

I should add, taking "giant steps"

[@merrittm4]

Man, you know that's true

[@Thomas-yl8lb]

If only I had a nickel for every Giant Steps joke made in KZbin comment sections.

[@nonglouie5106]

Humble giants

[@spensert4933]

Fucking height of music in the 20th century.

[@Peter-j2r2k]

RIGHT you are!!!

[@Peter-j2r2k]

may be we ought to say - in jazz music

[@erosamuk]

On Eric Dolphy from wikipedia: Charles Mingus remarked of Dolphy shortly after his death that "Usually, when a man dies, you remember-or you say you remember-only the good things about him. With Eric, that's all you could remember. I don't remember any drags he did to anybody. The man was absolutely without a need to hurt."

[@ahmaniel]

Watching Elvin Jones and his wild polyrythmic performance at work is a great gift.

[@Hoichi90]

So fucking good!

[@123jkjk123]

Elvin Jones is the motor driving the whole song.

[@emilianoturazzi]

@@123jkjk123 no Elvin no Trane :)

[@AndreaRuoccomusic]

I agree

[@martinvelez9250]

A force of nature.....

[@theox8276]

Eric really nailed it. He was the link between Free and Hard Bop. Simply unique.

[@allanweiser6276]

This video is a Jazz treasure

[@keiitikawai2747]

Dolphy is amazing..

[@sanyatyr]

Two Giants together! Dolphy was absolutely non standart thinking player with extraordinary feel of music. Coltrane was kind of musical philosopher and sage of jazz.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

Es better than trene ,: 0

[@raulmacias1311]

Quote by ERIC DOLPHY ~ "My greatest fear? No, it's not death because it's inevitable and it will happen to everybody sooner or later. But yes, I fear God. I love God."

[@raulmacias1311]

Quote by JOHN COLTRANE ~ "May we never forget that in the sunshine of our lives, through the storm and after the rain ~ it is all with God ~ in all ways and forever."

[@raulmacias1311]

@@sanyatyr I can only imagine how Eric Dolphy would have sounded on the latter Coltrane albums such as "A Love Supreme" and "Meditations". After the untimely death of Dolphy, Eric's parents gave Coltrane Dolphy's Bass Clarinet as a gift! Coltrane plays it briefly on "The Father, The Son And The Holy Ghost."

[@davissinclair4945]

These guys right here are some of the greatest musicians EVER.

[@joeyfloress1131]

Dolphy’s brain is so flipping incredible- he knows exactly what he’s playing. Those aren’t just random notes and he’s not just flopping his fingers around aimlessly.

[@emilianoturazzi]

it's quite evident... same for lots of other players (Ornette, Ayler, Braxton...)

[@gabriellprophete5081]

Damn I'm not the best play then cause it sound like there is no purpose for the notes

[@Rickriquinho]

Dolphy always plays the same thing independently of the composition!

[@gabriellprophete5081]

@@Rickriquinho but why that so like bad

[@Rickriquinho]

@@gabriellprophete5081 Because this is not a style, it is a poor and repetitive manner. Dolphy was a talented man but free jazz ruined his career.

[@raulmacias1311]

Quote by JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE ~ "My music is the Spiritual expression of what I am, my faith, my knowledge, my being." Quote by ERIC ALLAN DOLPHY JR. ~ "Music is like the wind. You don't know where it comes from and you don't know where it went. But, once you hit that note, it's over with. So don't put on some earphones and start trying to analyze everything that you play cause it's over with. It's gone."

[@jeanhodgson8623]

It's sad that John's faith was not in the Lord Jesus Christ. He never got saved. What was said in connection with "A Love Supreme" is rubbish. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." (Acts 16:31)

[@cemardayakut3486]

@@jeanhodgson8623 yeah sure you know better than he did. Islam or Christianity, what difference does it make? They are both bullshit. But John Coltrane being a muslim, christian, buddhist or whatever it is, does not reduce my love and respect to him and to his music. So cut the crap and try to enjoy something, loser.

[@nealluczkiewicz6846]

@@jeanhodgson8623 You cannot know anyone else's heart or mind. I would guess you mean well but was it not Jesus Christ who advised "Judge not lest he be judged." What we THINK is someone else's fate is unknown and practically none of our business. Isn't it difficult enough to keep our own soul in life line? I do not think it was kind, nor wise, to call another human being's spiritual expression "rubbish."

[@aeyeq]

It is sad to read the ramblings of a religious extremist.

[@nealluczkiewicz6846]

@Thierno Athie Exactly. Religion, in its' purest sense, or perhaps best sense, should be an indication towards God. The Names may vary but ultimately all the rivers of religion should flow to the GREAT truly un-nameable, unknowanlble OCEAN of the ONE Creator. Just an opinion.

[@postpunkhah]

Crazy to think this was 1961. Sounds so fresh and modern! And just think of all the moribund pop music that was happening during this same time period, by comparison. WOW!

[@gtripmusic2906]

This music sounds like outer space compared to what pop music sounded like in 1961

[@james-jg8iu]

That’s Bebop

[@rustybeltway2373]

Heh heh. Hey man, Buck Owens and the Everly Brothers were making records in '61. I like that shit too!

[@JoeyvanLeeuwen]

I can't believe I never knew that this video existed. Sometimes just seeing John's face brings tears.

[@Gurci28]

2:47 While most of the other “free jazz” players sounded very serious in their playing, Dolphy's solos often came across as ecstatic and exuberant. His improvisations utilized very wide intervals, a variety of nonmusical speechlike sounds, and its own logic. Dolphy's impact resulted largely from his brilliant playing of not only alto saxophone but also flute (then uncommon in jazz) and bass clarinet (which he virtually introduced into jazz improvisation). Sources: Blue Note Records; Britannica

[@DPOWER222]

I know! Listening to the Trane crew makes me cry with joy!!

[@tomgeorgearts]

'Trane was on another plane.

[@merrittm4]

I'm tearing up reading the comments, and I haven't even listened to the track. Those were the days back then. Unfortunately, we can never go back.

[@No_Govt]

Thank God someone recorded this! Eric and Coltrane looking so relaxed and effortlessly playing the impossible...

[@audible67]

This particular event is very possibly within the threshold of top 10 greatest things to ever happen in the history of human civilization.

[@luiszuluaga6575]

I listen to a lot of people who play saxophone but the beauty of listening to someone like Trane is that his sound is instantaneously recognizable within the space of one bar.

[@merrittm4]

True that, but so is Dolphy.

[@cgmmv]

Dolphy was one of a few friends of Coltrane. Coltrane was often isolated; only Dolphy opened Coltrane's hearts and minds.

[@minoru3140]

Friends mean reliable close friends.

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

Let's not forget McCoy. His chord voicings and angular soling makes the whole sound of Coltrane's band at the time.

[@Gurci28]

Stuart Nicholson - OCTOBER 21, 2021 Along with Coltrane and Coleman, Eric Dolphy played a significant role in influencing the development of the avant-garde in jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He featured on Coleman’s seminal Free Jazz from 1960, and toured and recorded extensively with both Mingus and Coltrane. Source: Jazzwise Great. Access the source and read the full article. 4:26

[@henrym.7858]

M.Tyner continued the tradition as best as he could with a number of excellent small goup and big band performances.

[@DA-xh5ej]

Miles hated Tyner's playing"Block chords,non playing muthaphucka."I disagree : McCoy was fantastic.

[@user-qg2uf8jp3h]

​​​@@DA-xh5ej Agree 100% with Miles. Just imagine Chick Corea or Duke Ellington sitting on that beach instead of Tyner... Know what I mean, Vern ?

[@frankdavino7187]

The swing of Elvin Jones here is something to to hear and see along with the fine clean performance of Sir Coltrane....

[@davissinclair4945]

You can here his influence in Mitch Mitchell's playing with Jimi Hendrix.

[@stanmenshic8993]

My God a dream team of Dolphy & Coltrane, 2 of the finest musicians/composers ever in any genre & both lives cut tragically short ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@mananaadamia1657]

And my

[@Robbover]

Jazz at it finest! I wished I could go back in time and give these guys a hug... Much Love and Respect

[@raulmacias1311]

It's not widely known that Coltrane and Dolphy would listen to birds singing and would transcribe the notes and incorporate them into their Improvisations!

[@jwf3148]

Olivier Messiaen

[@colonelcolonist6073]

John gilmore

[@tylersharkey4727]

That's so cool

[@drumtwo4seven]

the mocking bird 👍

[@Oenloveslife]

Seriously??? That is so cool!! Are these transcriptions anywhere to see?

[@stephenfine5472]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ excellent recording! Train and dolphy are 4 me the best ever!!!! We have to thank the Bird for that!!! Rest in peace Mastroe 's

[@robinkaleiopu5271]

Yes, it stems from Yardbird, but it was Ornette Coleman who saw the way out of it

[@ericjurgens6976]

Masters of their craft at the top of their game. Tyner, Garrison, and Jones were peerless players, and Dolphy could match 'Trane's intensity and power.

[@jamesclawson3118]

That's right. This quartet at a peak, and Dolphy is the perfect fit.

[@0SW13]

in this instance it is reggie workman on bass, playing some utterly magnificent lines. he can also be heard with this group on "ole" and some of the village vanguard recordings. it is interesting to compare him with garrison - especially on such an emblematic tune as 'impressions' - workman utilises a wider and more fluid octave range but plays less chords than garrison does, also garrison is more melodic and tuneful to my ears

[@MahavishnuProject]

Reggie Workman on bass, actually.

[@PepperWilliams_songcovers]

Coltrane is crying so good! His tone alone is worth GOLD!!! And Elvin (Mr Poly-rhythmic)i s definitely my favorite intense drummer. He listens to EVERYTHING! McCoy and Jimmy unbelievable!~ Eric Dolphy.....a true ORIGINAL in every sense of the word! The Thelonius Monk of the alto sax. This video is an instant classic....History in the making!!!

[@alphonsepetitboudu6552]

Reggie pas Jimmy

[@WillsJazzLoft]

This is splendid to see the two of them together in what is obviously a very rare performance. Thank you for posting

[@EnricoMarasea]

Meravigliosi! Grazie ♥️

[@TheJarotevil]

The best Quartet ever + Eric Dolphy 🤯🤯🤯

[@AMEER-114-]

How about a month and day ?

[@NycBeauty]

Thank you for this video ❤, the world is so depressing because of the news. This brings me JOY.

[@SwingMASA]

This bassist is not Jimmy Garrison！ This bassist is Reggie Workman！

[@BenjaminWooten-e1u]

Listen to that genius Dolphy and Maestro Jones the time keeper and the real Mccoy Tyner on piano Amazing performance. When they were all still young.

[@mananaadamia1657]

I love 💝 John Coltrane

[@DPOWER222]

Everybody is extraordinary 💙🖤🌻👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@raulmacias1311]

This was THE JOHN COLTRANE QUINTET!

[@Gurci28]

The KZbin algorithm selects videos for viewers with two goals in mind: finding the right video for each viewer, and enticing them to keep watching. 5:00 [Hootsuite]

[@brucescott4261]

raul macias ...John Coltrane Quartet with guest artist Eric Dolphy.

[@raulmacias1311]

Eric Dolphy took the Alto Saxophone into the stratosphere!

[@albertbrown359]

Or beyond!

[@jibsmokestack1]

And he took the bass clarinet to the multiverse!

[@jt1929]

Eric Dolphy is amazing!!❤️

[@billfletcher7602]

Love this video so much. Happy birthday, Eric Dolphy!

[@ice-iu3vv]

coltrane died at 40, dolphy at 36, charlie parker at 34. if they had each lived and played until the age of 70, that would make 100 additional years of their music. (210-110) they barely PLAYED 45-50 cumulative years. so there would be 3 times as much of their art . man. jazz history would be unimaginably deep at that point. it would be very very sax heavy too.

[@jabu003]

at least till 50

[@T.Ramby11]

Definitely tragic but at least we were still lucky enough to be blessed with a considerable number of recordings from all three. Coltrane in particular was incredibly prolific. The amount of music he recorded in just the ten-year period (1957-1967) from when he first recorded as a leader to the day he passed away is astounding. But you’re right. It would have been truly amazing to see all the places their music would have gone had they lived longer.

[@skineyemin4276]

Which was why Sonny Rollins was chosen to be one of the last of the true great ones standing, then, actually retire from playing completely as of 2014. He is currently 90 years old.

[@cocoonecoco]

They are still playing, but for different audience! Hope even better than ours!

[@mananaadamia1657]

Yes

[@albertbrown359]

This music these musicians are way out there and all together as one.My Lawd what a great people you have Created.There is no music more cerebral than African American modern music.

[@samrobinson2454]

I agree, but would say "that was the case ever since jazz and blues began to appear." Every step of the way has been innovative and grew organically from what preceded.

[@NadavHbr]

Eric Dolphy ❤ a complete original - such a joyful noise !

[@KeysOfMysterium]

audio quality is impressively good

[@claudiocerioli729]

Togliamoci il cappello di fronte ad un quintetto così, chapeau

[@georgesember9069]

Thanks for posting this simply legendary music!!

[@AMEER-114-]

How about a month and day ?

[@dimitrimoliavko-visotzky381]

Incredible and beautiful Dolphy!

[@raulmacias1311]

The John Coltrane Quintet!

[@jasonpfinch]

Incredible stuff, thanks.

[@leebraun4100]

This is perhaps one of the greatest collaborations musically ever.My goodness.Everyone was on the exact same wave reaching out into the farthest region of the musical heavens.African American modern music otherwise known as jazz. There is no music it's equal. None!

[@scamli]

Hear hear!

[@kenlenga9298]

I love Reggie Workman with this group as much as Garrison... he and Elvin are so crisp here

[@robertlloyd7796]

The writeup says Jimmy, but that's really Reggie on bass.

[@jibsmokestack1]

Agree completely

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I heard Trane on records and CDs, but this is the FIRST time I saw him play on video.

[@brucescott4261]

John ROBINSON III ...Perhaps you weren't even born then.

[@ricvossen]

Impressions is the first tune I have ever listened from John Coltrane !

[@jonnybeck6723]

This is the band that defined avant garde and with Eric added just made it so insane Thanx for posting (!)

[@anthonyfischer2408]

Amazing...there's so much going on here that time actually stands still (for me). I hear each man's entire life up to that point...and then realize the clip is on 6:57 long. Thank you for the journey to the artistic side of the brain.

[@tonytony1035]

Stunning video. Thank you so much for posting. I'm currently obsessing on McCoy Tyner, but Coltrane is always nice to hear.

[@EuphoricImpact]

So pleased to have access to this. Thank you for sharing!! Subscribed...and looking forward to exploring your channel.

[@ypolchenko-freejazz-guitar]

amazing record! they play as if today and talk of today. magic

[@adbl.d6324]

well, there is Olé. That’s the band, just not credited as such. Dolphy represented by the name George Lane due to contractural restrictions.

[@superdiscount100]

I'm a trumpet player and both these two make we wanna take up sax lol

[@dariusmolark6820]

brilliant. just fabulous!

[@alexseago9937]

Incredible

[@davissinclair4945]

4:00 - Look at Elvin's right hand changing over to straight 8ths on the snare drum while he keeps that swing with the ride. That's polyrhythm. There aren't many modern drummers I've seen that have that kind of independence and discipline on the drum kit. Maybe Neil Peart.

[@canalrandom7912]

Those aren't straight 8s, these are quarter note triplets

[@davissinclair4945]

​@@canalrandom7912Meant his left hand on the snare.

[@canalrandom7912]

@@davissinclair4945 I know

[@JohnDoe-me9jh]

ginger baker

[@hugo888888888]

The death of these two giants was an irreparable loss for humanity.

[@jeffstevens9729]

I hear you man but they did a TON of stuff while here with us.

[@froggdanger]

Eric Dolphy's abstract phrasing is like sonic cubism (Picaso's abstract painting style). Amazing!

[@georgemanka]

Listening to this, my brain broke down into its separate spheres and various constituent components and reconstituted itself in a new and chaotic way.

[@大深堀]

E・ドルフィのアルトサックス、サイコーコルトレーンカルテットもいいし大好きな作品です。🎉🎉🎉

[@AMEER-114-]

How about a month and day ?

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

Great 2 see this again ,: 0 👍

[@jaswmont]

Reggie Workman on bass

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

Is Reggie ,: 0

[@renvicjack628]

right 🔥🔥🔥🔥✨💖💖

[@858jc7]

Reggie is locking it down!!!

[@bobsabin]

Reggie Workman on bass!

[@PAOComposer]

I knew that it did not look like Jimmy Garrison.

[@jameswebb4593]

I am an old long time Jazz fan , for what its worth , Coltranes best work was with Monk , Brilliant solo's , Dolphy's solo here is virtually the same as his on Mingus Presents album ,playing " if Sigmund Freuds Wife was your Mother " . But Eric can best be listened too with Booker Little , Mal Waldron "Live At the Five Spot " . three volumes .

[@pappymartinlegacyjazzcolle4534]

BLACK CLASSICAL MUSIC!

[@moinjay3274]

Music has no color...do you refer to Ravel as French.

[@williemcglown8001]

What was that at 3:07 - 3:09 !!!!!!!!!!!!! Dammmmmmm 🎻 Violin❤❤❤

[@michaelg3074]

Thank you for this post

[@tomculhane6648]

Thank you for posting this!

[@neilmedina6096]

This is so amazing!!!!

[@bjburb8334]

So to me this illustrates well the difference between these guys. Dolphy is a master of phrasing and transposing and his MO is to roll out a round of awesome improv, retreat back to his home base riff, plan his next move and do it again. You can hear it in almost everything he does. In Out to Lunch, he loosens that a bit and scratches at free jazz. JC, on the other hand almost never does that, except on some blues numbers. He does not do licks. He plays a melody, (or a raga) then it's related scales for a few rounds, and then barrels on to explore it in a different way, with some twisting, inverting voicings..... and then does it again and again. No retreat to anything like a home or repitition, just endless exploration of versions of the melody that he hears in his head, or that he discovers in real time. No pausing for him either, perfectly seamless. He is the rarest of artists for this reason. Also, he was not just a conceptual artist. His musicianship, technique and craft was at the top of the heap. Long live John Coltrane.

[@michaelg3074]

Yes. What you said.

[@timcardona9962]

Well said. Dolphy seems to do this a lot less when he's on Flute or Bass Clarinet, where his phrasing and note choice is more interesting to me. Softly from The Illinois Concert is one of my favorite Dolphy solos for this very reason: no stock licks at all

[@JosephHuether]

This quintet was perfection!

[@AMEER-114-]

How about a month and day ?

[@EvanSmith-c3r]

Dynamic Duo!

[@johndickson8405]

Thanks for this! I love all these guys and I never knew this existed!…and for the producer that thought it would be cool and artsy to film Dolphy through the erector set……points off!

[@shkyrbty]

Oh, wow.....thank you for the upload.

[@freejazzbone]

thanks for sharing!

[@babaolatunji]

Thank you!

[@deniscleyet-merle3136]

Incredible footage. Thanks for posting!

[@aaronalter2000]

Correction on the bass player. It was Reggie Workman, not Jimmy Garrison.

[@haysfordays]

I used to have this in the 80's on a Japanese import VHS. Had subtitles during the interviews. It had another later performance of Impressions with Jimmy Garrison and no Dolphy. Supposedly Trane was tired for that taping and it doesn't have the same energy. But Trane on an off day is maybe like a hydrogen bomb instead of a nuclear one.

[@raulagarcia4744]

Music from this world to the next!

[@willieluncheonette5843]

Eric killing it!

[@Lee-m8f7m]

😂Calling on the spirits of the universe. This is African American indigenous music at the highest level. My Lawd!

[@kaljic1]

Hipnotic!

[@jazzorphin]

This is not Jimmy Garrison on bass, Reggie Workman replaces him here. Fantastic video. Frankfurt/Germany 1961 ?? Thanks for posting!

[@KnocheChristof]

Looks to me like that's Reggie Workman on bass.. Great video!

[@aaronalter2000]

Definitely Workman.

[@efroncal]

I forgot how good Eric Dolphy was...

[@AMEER-114-]

How about a month and day ?

[@engineel19]

Most powerful and timeless

[@bubajazz]

Wow! What a piece!

[@StephenGrew]

Very Power Full

[@ayezay2677]

GOD BLESS YOU ALL JESUS IS THE WAY TRUTH AND THE LIGHT IN JESUS NAME AMEN

[@nightfish0101]

ドルフィーが凄すぎる。まさに魂の解放。 Eric Dolphy is too amazing. A true liberation of the soul.

[@cyprianpakua1451]

2:46 Dolphy 🙏

[@橋元勝紀]

素晴らしい!

[@이재숙-r4f]

경쾌합니다 타악기가 신명나게하네요

[@ronojoysen1548]

Pinnacle.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!!

[@tapiceriaautomotorjazz]

Tremendo, explosión total y genialidad inigualable

[@strangersname]

Pure pleasue